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City Choreographer [electronic resource] : Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirsch, Alison Bick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architects and community--United States.
- City planning--United States--History--20th century.
- Halprin, Lawrence--Philosophy.
- Lawrence Halprin and Associates.
- Urban landscape architecture--United States--History--20th century.
- Architects and community--History--20th century--United States.
- Architects and community.
- City planning.
- Urban landscape architecture--United States.
- Urban landscape architecture.
- Local Subjects:
- Architects and community--United States.
- City planning--United States--History--20th century.
- Halprin, Lawrence--Philosophy.
- Lawrence Halprin and Associates.
- Urban landscape architecture--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the most prolific and influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) was best known for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Sea Ranch, the iconic planned community in California. These projects, as well as vibrant public spaces throughout the country-from Ghirardelli Square and Market Street in San Francisco to Lovejoy Fountain Park in Portland and Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis-grew out of a participatory design process that was central to Halprin's work and is proving ever more relevant to urban design today. In City Choreographer, urban de
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: SCORING THE PARTICIPATORY CITY; 1. THE CREATIVE ORIGINS OF LARRY AND ANNA HALPRIN; PART I. BUILT WORK; 2. FRAMING CIVIC RITUALS: MARKET STREET, NICOLLET MALL, HERITAGE PARK PLAZA; 3. DESIGNING WITH NATURE AS "ARCHETYPAL PRECEDENT": PORTLAND OPEN SPACE SEQUENCE, SEATTLE FREEWAY PARK, MANHATTAN SQUARE PARK; PART II. COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS; 4. THE TAKE PART PROCESS: LAWRENCE HALPRIN & ASSOCIATES IN PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; 5. FACILITATION AND/OR MANIPULATION: THE CHALLENGES OF TAKING PART IN FORT WORTH, EVERETT, CHARLOTTESVILLE, AND CLEVELAND
- CONCLUSION: CHOREOGRAPHY AND THE CONTEMPORARY CITYNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4096-7
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